investigation Predictive Role of Psychological Contract on Nurses' Organizational Commitment

Aerab Sheybani, Khadije

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Khadije Aerab Sheybani

Assistant Professor, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Objective: The Psychological contracts are defined as those beliefs and opinions regarding commitment among employees and employers being able to regulate the relationship among them. The main objective of the present study is to investigate the predictive role of psychological contract in nurse s' organizational commitment in hospitals.
Materials and method:This research is descriptive from type of correlation, Data of the study were collected using psychological contract Hui &al(2004)and organizational commitment alle, & myier(1991) questionnaire, while a sample of 400 nurses was selected using random sampling method. Data analysis was performed using SPSS-18 software as well as regression analysis.
Findings: The Data analysis indicated that employee s' psychological commitment can be predicted up to 36.9 percent through psychological contract variable. More over, determination coefficient indicated that 13.6 percent of dispersion observed in organizational commitment can be explained by psychological contract variable.
Conclusion: Using of psychological contract to search of relationship between employment and employer show that these relationships depended to personal,social and psychocognitional mechanism.

Keywords

Main Subjects

Psychology

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Journal of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences

investigation Predictive Role of Psychological Contract on Nurses' Organizational Commitment

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Volume 25, Issue 5
November and December 2018
Pages 609-617

investigation Predictive Role of Psychological Contract on Nurses' Organizational Commitment

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Volume 25, Issue 5November and December 2018Pages 609-617

Volume 25, Issue 5
November and December 2018
Pages 609-617